The last time I used xine was on RedHat 7.1 some 4 years back, when my resolve to use FOSS based software was on its peak (it still is :). It was so crappy then and was such a major put off.
I got desperate yesterday after seeing all my Windows colleagues playing wmv and other music formats on their media players and wanted to have my own on my FC4. So started off expecting a tedious journey of compiling from sources. However I wanted to give an initial shot at the binaries available on the site.
Guess what, ten minutes and I was up and running with a Windows media player kinda featured player. I can now play all music and video formats.
To install xine you need to get the binaries or sources from here and then to get support for various codecs you need to do this.
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I tried Xine on FC3...it was awesome... It even plays the .3gp file (dps mms :P).. Even WMP, real player and old versions of quick time gave me errors or asked to download codecs.
Mplayer is another alternative. Its a no frill media player with a sad interface, but works great if you want to play online radio on linux. Its avlbl on windows too.
What an example to give (dps cheez :)). Yup I used mplayer on fc3 ..sad interface true....But xine is super cool man...
wow, this is nice to hear. I was too lazy to even try and make multimedia work on Linux.
But maybe I'll try xine sometime
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